When I have spoken at venues around Sweden, about my book, SEE ME NOT and the subject of human trafficking, it became clear to me that many people viewed human trafficking as something that was going on "over there" - meaning, in other countries, but not their own. In truth, human trafficking is happening around us EVERY day.

Young women, both here in Europe and elsewhere, are being trafficked by the thousands, lured and tricked into the sex industry, where, under pressure and extortion of threats to harm their own children or family back home, are forced to be sexual performers for the porn industry or in sex shops or brothels.

In fact, the means of human trafficking in the porn and sex industry is more like a snare, a trap, where young women with the promise of making money and changing their economic situation, are lured into the industry. Once their faces appear in porn films and videos, they are branded. They can be extorted and are silently and brutally forced by an industry that knows very well that their faces and bodies, now being seen by millions across the world, is a mark on their forehead. Those young girls are going to be stereotyped, they are going to have a difficult time being treated as equals in the world that sees them as "different", where doors of opportunity open to others, will not be so easily open to them - and this is where the human trafficking element comes into play - they can be controlled and manipulated by the porn and sex industry, who knows this fact very well and who entice them to continue.

Human trafficking is not "over there" - it is all around us, because the sex industry, porn for one, engages countless thousands of young women, and even children, into its net, every year.

See Me Not was inspired by an actual six year-old girl we found in Calcutta, India, who was living on the streets with her one-year-old brother. Researching her circumstances, I discovered that thousands of children, just like her, are scooped up by traffickers and forced into sexual servitude at very young ages, or as drug mules. See Me Not while a literary fiction, is entirely based on the factual circumstances of what actually happens to these children and young girls.

The book has been popularly accepted by readers, and should you decide to pick up a copy for yourself, we will send a 2nd copy, at no cost to you, to any school, library or non-profit institution of your choosing, with a notation of the donor (you). We will email you at the point of purchase to get the details and inform you when the book is sent.